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Religious Education

Staff:

Curriculum:

Religious Education at Key Stage 3

Students have two lessons of Religious Education per fortnight in Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9.
The Religious Education Curriculum at Key Stage 3 is taught through the following programmes of study:

Year 7

  • The Island (Introduction to Religious Education)
  • Who is Jesus, and why is he important?
  • What is the power of Stories?
  • Why Worship?
  • Sacred Places and Spaces

Year 8

  • What can we learn from Sikhism?
  • Why should we fight injustice?
  • What is the power of Festivals?
  • What can we learn from Hinduism?
  • Why have landmarks in life?

Year 9

  • What can we learn from Buddhism?
  • Why are Human Rights Important?
  • What can we learn from the Abrahamic Faiths?

Begin the Full Course GCSE Specification (Spring half term onwards):

  • GCSE Unit – Religion : Peace and Conflict
  • GCSE Unit – Religion and Community Cohesion.

Religious Education at Key Stage 4

Students follow the Edexcel Full Course specification. Examinations include:

  • Religion and Life Examination paper (50%)
  • Religion and Society Examination paper (50%)

*One paper individually comprises Half Course GCSE Religious Education.

Topics of study include:

  • Religion: Rights and Responsibilities
  • Marriage and the Family
  • Religion: Crime and Punishment
  • Religion: Environmental and medical issues
  • Matters of life and death
  • Believing in God.
  • (Revision of the two topics covered in Year 9)

*The specification includes Christian and Muslim perspectives.